The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE new laboratory at Yale. costing s75, 900, i:
ne rlu finished

THE new laboratory at Yale, costing SIS, 900, is
nearly finished
Miss LAURA MrKLER, blind woman, is
preaching effective temperance sermons in
| Iowa.
Four HUNDRED CARRIER PIGEONS were pro-
vided for the mobilization Of the French
army corps.
A FEW days ago two inches of snow fell and
the thermometer registered "a degrees above
zero at Louisiana, Mo.
SINCE MEMPHIS was made taxing district, in
1880, it has paid off nearly 81 100000 of its debt,
About So, 100000 is yet to be paid,
AN erolte is said to have fallen in the street
at Spokane Falls, Ore, Tuesday evening. which
struck an electric light wire and burst into a
thousand pieces.
THE wearing of false hair was introduced into
England from France in 1872. The practice was
introduced into the latter country from Italy,
where it originated.
MAINE JUDGE has declared Jamaica ginger
an intoxicant When man has the collie down
| in Maine he must make a dead rush for New
| Hampshire or Massachusetts.
THE slide trombone, the most perfect of brass
musical instruments, is the sackbut of the an
clients and was revived about 1890. after a model
found among the ruins of Pompeii.
| THE independent militia companies in the Dis
| trict of Columbia have been organized into a
district national guard. after considerable oppo-
| sition, and form a command of 1890 troops I'M
der Gen. Ordway.
| A CHERRY TREE of the white oxheart variety
on the premises of John Capura, of Oroville,
| Cal, bore this season $500 pounds of fruit 1t
is eigethen years old, is sixty feet high, and is
| six feet in circumference.
| THE church formerly occupied by DR.. Edward
Everett Hale, in Boston, was dedicated as q
Jewish synagogue ON Sunday. The congrega-
ton that is to occupy it had the only synagogue
in Boston forty years ago. Now there are seven
| in that city.
ABRAHAM BURBANK, of Pittsfeld, Mass, aged
! So years, fell about thirty feet from scaffold
on one of his buildings, striking on his head and
shoulders He was considerably Jared, but the
| next morning was at work. apparently none the
worse for his big drop.
| The schoolmaster is not abroad in California
as much as he ought to be, judging from the
following paragraph printed in the Shasta
| Courier: "A man who spells God with j. and
county and California with X is not fit for
| postmaster, but there is one such in this
county"
ENGLISH SPORTING WORDS are rapidly becom-
ing common property on both sides of the chan
mel. Match is already imported into France,
Jockey" starter" ring and handicap"
bear it company And, so far from entering
the Gallo newspapers in italics as strangers,
they appear in ordinary type.
THERE are 400 Mormon bishops in Utah, 2,423
priests 2,947 teachers and 1854 deacons. Salt
Lake City is DIVIDE into wards of eight or nine
blocks each and bishops put in charge of each
ward. Under him there are two teachers, whose
business is to learn the employment and income
of every resident of the ward and report the
same to the bishop. Then the bishop collects
the tenth of each mans income and turns it into
the church authorities.
PARTY was arrested for stealing and haul
ing to Pine Bluff, Ark, three wagon loads of
watermelons from neghboring patch The de-
PENDANT was acquitted: firstly, because he proved
an abb by sixteen darkies; secondly, the court
thought it doubtful, if not dangerous prece-
dent to set, to convict man of stealing water
melons, especially when it was proved that the
prosecutor had patch of seventeen acres-some
| rotting for want of attention.
THE FETEs in celebration of the establish
ment of the independence of Belgium have been
brought to close. At Brussels one of the most
interesting events was the competition of
anglers Thirty-two societies (twenty-seven
Belgian, four French and one Dutch, muster
ing altogether 5S4 anglers, took part in it. 1t
was curious to see them at work during three
hours at the Canal de Charleroi, the places for
| all the men, who sat close to one another,
being numbered.
A CURIOUS BUTTON was made about century
ago and worn by the English handles of the
period. 1t consisted of polished brass and was
ruled with lines so fine as to be almost micro
Scopc. The roughneSS of the surface thus OBJ
tanned broke the reflection of the light falling
on it and gave it prisllatic colols., The beauty
of mother of pearl and is iridescent brillancy
are believed to be produced by three plates
overlapping each other uneveuly and thus they
disperse the light as they reflect it.
THE Probate Judge of Smith county Kansas,
| is insane. He ought to be removed and another
appointed. But the Governor finds himself in a
~ He n
until a vacancy occurs and no vacancy can be
declared until the incumbent is adjudged in
sane. In order TO effect this the lunatic must
be tried by Jury and declared by the Probate
Judge to be insane. No other person in the
county has this power. This is the first case of
the kind which has ever arisen in Kansas.
A LADY in London stole a piece of Valen-
ciennes lace while examining some. She was
detected, but permitted to leave the shop,
whence letter to this effect was soon sent:
Madame am afraid that the fifteen yards of
lace which you selected in my shop will not be
sufficient to trim your dress; | therefore take
the liberty of sending you second piece of the
same pattern. beg to be informed whether
you accept" The signature was that of the
proprietor 1t was accepted and paid for
Mrs. MARY A. MORE, widow of Yolo county,
Cal, aged SO, and worth $500. 900, determined to
marry James A Black, the foreman of her
ranch, good-looking fellow, aged 80. The
license was procured, but the relatives of Mrs
More, who wanted to keep the money in the
family, served an injunction restraining her
from marrying until her mental condition could
be inquired into, and had Black arrested accus-
ing him of stealing the body of the woman"
The Supreme Court is now wrestling with the
case.
The pop weed is a Dakota curiosity It's stalk
is like that of a cabbage, with a large, round
top, the size and color of a Hubbard squash.
The ''northwesters'' in the fall blow the pop
balls off the stalks, and roll them for miles over
| the prairies till they reach uneven country
where they pile up like snowbanks and serve
| buffalo herds q shelter from the winter biz
yards, A pop ball which meets any hard object
explodes with a tremendous report and sends
about thousands of fine, needleke seeds in
every direction.
THE other day an enormous flock of sea gulls
appeared between the baths and the railroad
wharf at Santa Cruz, Cal, and 1t was soon mani
fest that the cause of their presence was an
enormous school of sardines, which were crowd
ing each other in the water along the beach
Several thrifty fishermen were soon on hand and
dragged their nets for abundant harvest
One haul brought out ten boxes of fish or !, 900
pounds. The sands were covered with fish
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